There's a big big difference between a 'free society' and a 'free market'. You think your liberties can be protected by corporations?
Is there really? Care to do more to substantiate this claim than throw out rhetorical catch phrases? You know, I love the way people throw around words like "corporation" like they're controlled by evil robots.
People run the fucking things. Shareholders. Thousands of people. Little old ladies who've invested their live savings run Disney, because they elect the officers that make the big decisions. If the officers feel that distributing a Moore film will piss off their shareholders and consumers, then it is in BOTH their best interest and, more importantly, the best interest of the entire company (including its 100,000 employees) to choose not to. If you don't like Disney's policies, don't buy their products. If enough people cared about Moore's fat ass they'd boycott Disney. They don't. Everyone likes to bitch about big bad corporations but the next minute they hand them their hard-earned dollars and justify their actions with conspiracy theories.
They're only interested in your money.
So I suppose that Michael Moore
isn't interested in my money? If that was the case, he'd be using the profits from Bowling for Columbine, Roger & Me, and his books to distribute it himself. Or he'd put it online for free or nominal subscription. And surely he'd be donating ALL his profits to the poor innocent insurgents at Abu Ghraib, right?
Mr. Moore is just as much a "war profiteer" as you allege the big scary Bush clan to be...
On the basis of your arguement, the film will be shown if the economic demand to see the film outweights the financial incentives (tax breaks) the Bush Family can offer to ban it.
Point me to the legislation that President Bush (or Governer Bush in Florida.. take your pick) personally authorized last month specifically in response to Michael Moore and specifically created to give Disney tax breaks in exchange for banning Michael Moore films.
If you're an Oscar-winning film maker you may have a chance but the Bush Family and all the other corrupt plutocrats running the US will have a massive advantage when it comes to silencing their critics.
Umm.. Michael Moore
is an Oscar-winning film maker.
Particularly ironic is that by offering tax-break they are suppressing your right to information (because it's critical of them) with your own money.
Again, what new tax break are you talking about? Point me to it on the public record... oh, wait, of course.. it's a SECRET tax break that somehow magically won't appear on Disney's accounting records. But they would, of course, tell Michael Moore about it because they know he can keep a secret. And then, knowing full well that investigative journos will be combing through the books looking for proof, Disney would still jeopardize its entire $55 billion+ operation to please
one sitting governor and save a few million. Now it all makes sense.
Things must be pretty lame in the 'Land of the Free' these days if a President can so overtly try and use corrupt corporate kick-backs to silence his critics and citizens like yourself think that your liberties will be protected by market forces.
I'm still waiting on links to that Miramax-only tax break you keep talking about. The only links I can find are allegations by Michael Fucking Moore himself. Moore
claims that is why Miramax won't distribute it, but can offer zero evidence other than "that's what their agent told my agent". Yeah, ok Mike, now you be quiet now and have another box of Krispy Kreme. It's part of his own goddamned conspiracy theory!
You know, so many people call President Bush "stupid", "dumb", "illiterate", a "moron", a "cowboy", etc., yet he has somehow managed to mastermind more absurdly complex worldwide conspiracies than the Illuminati. Exactly how does that work?